In chapter 22, the Dharma is entrusted to all others. Thus, the entrustment in chapter 21 was later called a “special entrustment,” because it was directed only toward the bodhisattvas, such as Superior Practice Bodhisattva, who had welled up from the earth. The entrustment of chapter 22 was called the “general entrustment,” because it is directed to all others. Those who are entrusted with the Dharma swear to fulfill the mission of the Buddha.

Thus, the entrustment of the Buddha’s mission to bodhisattvas is completed and the Stupa of Abundant Treasures Buddha, which had been suspended in the air, returned to where it originally came from, the assembled embodiment buddhas of Shakyamuni returned to their respective lands, and the bodhisattvas returned to this actual Sahā world—generally a reiteration of the significance of being born into this world. This is how the curtain falls on the second group of chapters.